Guests not tuned in to the show - perhaps overcooked from a day in the unforgiving tropical sun - lounge on plush chaises in dimly lit nooks.Īt first glance, the whole scene is elegant and chic. The bar's rich mahogany tone matches the dark wood paneling that lines the atrium. Courteous staffers in smart vests and bow ties tend a crowded bar near the stage in an attentive yet unhurried fashion. Brass handrails curve along a glass-walled balcony and the wide split staircase that descends from it. Like nearly everything else on this boat - all 15 towering decks of it - the two-story atrium is designed to convey a sense of relaxed luxury. On a cruise ship, buying into the illusion is as much a part of the deal as overpriced drink packages. But their Caribbean celebrity isn't a mirage. Though all are well-regarded musicians in Vermont, as Mellow Yellow they don't have nearly the hometown following that this excited crowd might suggest. Dusty Love is Linda Bassick, who teaches early-childhood music classes, also in Burlington. Franco Sunshine is Frank Zammiello, a motorcycle and moped mechanic in Burlington. Flip Funk is Brad Sourdiffe, who co-owns Shelburne's Furchgott Sourdiffe Gallery with his wife, Joan Furchgott.
Kenny Diggit is Ken French, a recording engineer and video producer from Charlotte. Rather, they're a 1960s and '70s tribute act whisked to the tropics from present-day Vermont.īrad DaddyO is really David Cooper, a Burlington recording engineer and the manager of the local African refugee hip-hop act A2VT. Unlike many of the other bands on the ship, such as Molly Hatchet and the Fabulous Thunderbirds, Mellow Yellow are not relics transplanted to the Caribbean from rock's graying glory days.
MELLOW YELLOW SINGER CROSSWORD MOVIE
She is hosting the Lebrewski Cruise, a four-day floating music and craft-beer festival clumsily themed around the movie The Big Lebowski. The band is playing on a temporary stage in the atrium of the Norwegian Pearl, a 965-foot Jewel Class cruise ship operated by Norwegian Cruise Lines.Īt the moment, the Pearl is bobbing around the Caribbean en route to the Bahamas from Miami. The whole scene - singing jesters, dancers in the aisles - feels like part of Bad Company's "Rock 'n' Roll Fantasy." Because, in many ways, fantasy is exactly what this is.ĭespite the convincing vintage garb and psychedelic sounds, Mellow Yellow's impeccable renditions of Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane and Strawberry Alarm Clock aren't filling up speakers at the Fillmore in San Francisco or NYC's Café au Go Go in 1969. The singer's high-wattage smile never dims as the band tears through the trio of songs that close the Beatles' Abbey Road: "Golden Slumbers," "Carry That Weight" and "The End." Jubilant fans sway and sing along on a lively dance floor, including a sizable contingent wearing bright, canary-yellow Mellow Yellow tees. Her tangerine boots gleam like the smile on her flushed face. She's slinging a pink Telecaster with paisley swirls. Last out is vocalist and guitarist Dusty Love.
MELLOW YELLOW SINGER CROSSWORD MOD
Drummer Franco Sunshine slips behind his kit, stone-faced and mod in dark jeans and a plain white T-shirt. Apollonius "Flip" Funk saunters to his post stage right with that stoic cool that only bass players seem to pull off. The lanky lead guitarist sports a trippy, tie-dyed T-shirt that somehow both clashes with and complements the multicolored kufi on his head. A leopard-print shirt ripples on his wiry frame a dark, tilted fedora sets off his narrow sunglasses. When they finally reemerge, the place erupts. The Russian advance appears to have been sluggish, while Ukraine is still holding strong despite suffering heavy injuries."One more song! One more song!" The five members of Mellow Yellow wait patiently just offstage at the conclusion of their set as the familiar encore call builds from the crowd. But it is difficult to evaluate how the actual fighting is going. The Kremlin is determined to reach some kind of milestone, analysts say, by May 9, the day Russia commemorates the Soviet Union’s triumph over Nazi Germany. Russia also bombarded key points along the eastern front, launching missiles at the strategic city of Kramatorsk. The ruined port city of Mariupol is a potent symbol for Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, as the home of the Azov regiment, whose origins in a far-right military group have lent a veneer of credibility to Putin’s claim of “denazifying” Ukraine. Fighting raged across eastern Ukraine - from the Kharkiv area in the north, where Ukrainian forces regained ground, to Mariupol in the south, where Russian forces sought to destroy the last pocket of resistance at the Azovstal steel plant and where about 200 civilians were holed up with fighters.
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